AN ACT authorizing and empowering the Levy Court of Kent County to insure the employees and appointed officers thereof, and to elect to be bound by the compensatory provisions of the Delaware Workmen's Compensation Law.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That the Levy Court of Kent County is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into a contract with some reliable insurance company or companies doing business in the State of Delaware to insure the employees or appointed officers of the County against injury or death incurred by such employees or appointed officers while performing their duties as employees or appointed officers of the County.

Section 2. The said Levy Court may at any time elect to be bound by the compensatory provisions of the Delaware Workmen's Compensation Law.

Section 3. The said Levy Court shall be the sole judge of the kind of insurance and the amount thereof which will best execute the purposes and provisions of this Act.

Section 4. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so far as such inconsistency does occur.